The UK’s Revolver Distribution are currently in France attending MIPCOM (it’s like the Cannes Film Festival, but for the DVD world) and schlepping around a Robert Pattinson documentary entitled – wait for it – “Rob-sessed.” We’re not sure if Revolver is aware of the blog with the same name but a quick Google search will remedy that situation. We can only imagine the film, which Revolver intends to distribute on DVD in both the US and the UK in November to coincide with the release of “New Moon,” will be nothing more than some hastily cobbled together stock footage, interviews with sub-Perez Hilton types and absolutely nothing from the actor or his camp.
Though we’re clearly not the audience for this, as a vehicle to part breathless teenage fangirls from their babysitting money, it will probably get the job done. Justin Marciano, the chief executive of Revolver confirms this, declaring, “Teenagers just can’t get enough of Robert Pattinson and this broadcast quality biography is guaranteed to deliver whether on TV or home entertainment.” You hear that potential buyers? This documentary is broadcast quality!
Revolver also plans to release a boxset pairing the doc with the 2006 film “The Haunted Airman,” which for reasons you can witness below, we’re sure Pattinson would rather forget he ever made.
Taking a look past “New Moon,” 2010 will see the actor trying desperately to wrest the anvil that is “Twilight” from around his neck. First up is the Jenny Lumet (“Rachel Getting Married”) scripted “Remember Me” which will hit theaters in February. The film is another look at family tragedies, this time as it threatens a relationship between two lovers. He is also attached to the western “Unbound Captives,” along with heavyweights Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. Writer and director Madeleine Stowe apparently turned down upwards of $5 million for the script from Fox – who wanted it as a project for Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe – in order to do the film herself. The film is supposed to get in front of cameras by the end of the year, but since the announcement of it in May we haven’t heard anything. That said, it sounds like a passion project for Stowe, and there are far too few A-list genre films being directed by women, so we’re hoping this one is still on track.